Modern capitalism has to make life seem more worth living than it actually is. It has to keep increasing the decimal places of your attention span, so that you keep delving further and further into minute triviality.
Social life is basically the same. People make a lot of noise and fuss, which distracts you into thinking it's worthwhile.
They do this because they themselves have to believe their own hype. If they didn't, they would be depressive realists (i.e. true philosophers).
They do this because they themselves have to believe their own hype. If they didn't, they would be depressive realists (i.e. true philosophers).
One of the reasons we moderns have an obsession with cute little animals is this: Animals, helplessly in the grip of the will-to-life, are role models in that they still have the motivation to act wildly and playfully despite there being absolutely no purpose to their joviality.
Men are drawn toward women for a similar reason. Young women in particular make this promise:
"Look, you don't need to be tense and discerning. We can completely relax and live as if there is no need for purpose in life. Just unravel and be convivial."
"Look, you don't need to be tense and discerning. We can completely relax and live as if there is no need for purpose in life. Just unravel and be convivial."
This leads to a degenerate slackening which exhausts civilisation from its true cosmic purpose: namely, transcending life.
At the moment, we are completely caving into the false promise of worldly life, and thus Satan is winning.
At the moment, we are completely caving into the false promise of worldly life, and thus Satan is winning.
If humanity cannot get its act together, it would be better if we didn't exist at all.
Your conscience makes this clear to yourself by making you depressed. Depression is the realisation that life itself is not worth living at the human level of consciousness.
Your conscience makes this clear to yourself by making you depressed. Depression is the realisation that life itself is not worth living at the human level of consciousness.
Just as this makes you suicidal in your individual life, so too does it make the human race as a whole suicidal (which is why we are so cynical about the fate and continued propagation of humanity).
God give us strength. This is a horrendously difficult struggle.
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